Merel

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Merel is a Dutch feminine given name, probably after the identical Dutch name for the blackbird (Turdus merula).[https://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/verklaring/naam/Merel Merel] at the Meertens Institute database of given names in the Netherlands. It has also been used as a surname. Notable people with the name include:

;Given name

• Merel de Blaeij (born 1986), Dutch field hockey player
• Merel Blom (born 1986), Dutch Olympic eventing rider
• Merel Baldé (despite not of Malian descent) (Dutch singer and actress)
• Merel van Dongen (born 1993), Dutch football midfielder, her middle name Didi is not really a popular Dutch name
• Merel de Knegt (born 1979), Dutch runner
• Merel Mooren (born 1982), Dutch volleyball player
• Merel Poloway (born 1946), American actress, wife of Raúl Juliá
• Merel S. Sager (1899–1982), American architect and landscape architect, male
• Merel Witteveen (born 1985), Dutch sailor
• Elmer (rapper), Dutch rapper Merel Pauw

;Surname

• Loïc Merel (born 1965), French mathematician